10 Reasons Why PGR is Better Than GT3

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old.UKTwister

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ok here goes (and i have owned both before i start)

1) The steering - is the best handling ever for a game, you can pull powerslides off real easy.. but its possible to lose control and crash.The car reacts to changes in elevation and over humps becomes a nightmare to control!

2) The Control Pad - Ok maybe you small fingered people hate the control pad but its the best setup for racing games along with the dreamcast. The accelerate and brake buttons and those big cunky buttons at the back of the pad meaning it feels like you are pushing a real brake or accelerator

3) Tracks - hundreds of them, and this time they arent all the same with just a extra corner. Some tracks are real challenging

4) Graphics - Probably on par with GT3 but, it doesnt have amazing weather effects like PGR. Fog, rain, thunder storms and when the track is wet you get these amazing reflections which show up nicely on my 32" Tv:)

5) Cars - PGR only has something like 30 cars, but 30 well chosen cars. You start off with a mini cooper, mercedes Slk and a toyota mr2 - not bad for the start of a game! After only a hours play i had got the nissan skyline and the engine on that is a beast.

6) Replay Value - Quick Race, Arcade Race, Kudos Challenge and time attack. Quick race lets you enter street races against 5 opponents in San francisco, london, new york and tokyo. Every time you complete 4 races you get a luvly jubbly new car, so its worth playing the quick race.
Arcade race - a battle against 5 opponents and against the kudos meter. Style and speed count here and every time you win 4 races, you get a new car, colour or helmet etc..
Kudos Challenge - 8 styles of race on 12 levels including overtaking, hot lap, timed run and 1 vs 1

7) Opponent difficulty - When i first started playing this i thought yeah another easy racing game that im gonna complete in a week... until i reached the san fransico level - the other cars are so clever, they try and take you out when behind you, they block you off on the straights and cut you up on corners.

The start of the race is abosulute mayhem, cars goin everywhere.

8) Sense of speed - Speaks for itself

9) Music - 60 tracks worth of music on there and you can stick your own music on the HD and create your own playlist

10) erm think i've covered everything, so i might as well give fellow PGR racers a tip. If the opponent spins your car around, start driving the car in reverse , blocking them off until the next corner, then spin it round 180 degrees and carry on.
 
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old.Kez

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You know they're different types of racer, right?

Comparisons are for lames.
 
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Ono

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MSR is better tha PGR hence MSR is better than GT3. :p
 
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old.UKTwister

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i had msr with my dc. pgr and msr are very similar games, but i like the extra feautures on gotham.
 
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Kippa.

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Originally posted by UKTwister
i had msr with my dc. pgr and msr are very similar games

Erm... they're more or less identical :p
 
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old.UKTwister

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yes i said very similar.. you dont need to repeat me lol
 
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Hashmonster

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hmmm, i've got MSR and think it's good but got bored of it - but it's good they made a racer more challenging. But i've only played a little bit of PGR, looked ok as u say about on par.

Still prefer GT3 tho, but would like the sense of speed up a touch on it - had it for ages but only started playing it properly recently
 
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Yaka

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pgr is fer kiddies who cant hadle the licences in gt3;)
 
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Happy Go Lucky

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The sense of speed on MSR isn't that great either :p ,
Yet it rewards perserverance.

I've only got to chapter 2 titled 'training' but already feel a better driver :cool: It only really kicks off when racing another 5 cars. It helps to know strengths of each car also to get anywhere.
 
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bodhi

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Gran Turismo 3 is the daddy.

Project Gotham Racing is pretty shit.
 
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monster.

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Have'nt tried the other ones but Gran Turismo is quite good but can get a bit tedious.

I'm looking foward to Auto Modellista :D
 
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Skyler

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Bodhi and his Sony bias again ;)

MSR & PGR are very very good games, I enjoyed both, they are challenging and entertaining...

GT3 I also enjoyed a lot, although it lacks the same sense of speed you got with GT1/GT2. All I want from future GT games, is more cars, and more original tracks, hopefully more tracks modelled on RL tracks. I would also like to see a bigger backlogue of older cars ;)
 
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Custy

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Races in order of goodness in my opinion

GTA3>MSR>CRAP RACER>LOTUS CHALLENGE>MARIOKART>MORE CRAP RACERS>PGR.
 
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Wij

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Custy - u ph00l. Mario Kart 0wnz all.

Anyway, I played GT3 for a couple of weeks non-stop. I got 77% I think. Got a Polyphony001 and an Escudo Pikes Peak etc... After that I found it a bit boring. The races where you could enter a Polyphony were way too easy (I know I don't have to use it but you just wanna get them out of the way). Also I got fed up with the Elise challenge. No matter what I tried and what tuning guides I followed I could not make an Elise that was half as fast as the CPU controlled ones. Got well annoyed with the 4th race in the series I think it was. Never played it again :)

Had PGR ffor ages now. Must remember to play it :)
 
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Wij

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Oh, just remembered. The rallying on GT3 sucked. I bought an Impreza. Made a half arsed attempt at tuning it up. Bunged on some Rally Tires and won evry single race in an evening. I did not lose once. How fucking pointless ? :/
 
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Custy

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aye, gt3 rallys are shit, i managed to win every race and not lose once without doing any work on my subaru impreza
 
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Skyler

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Originally posted by Wij
Custy - u ph00l. Mario Kart 0wnz all.

Anyway, I played GT3 for a couple of weeks non-stop. I got 77% I think. Got a Polyphony001 and an Escudo Pikes Peak etc... After that I found it a bit boring. The races where you could enter a Polyphony were way too easy (I know I don't have to use it but you just wanna get them out of the way). Also I got fed up with the Elise challenge. No matter what I tried and what tuning guides I followed I could not make an Elise that was half as fast as the CPU controlled ones. Got well annoyed with the 4th race in the series I think it was. Never played it again :)

Had PGR ffor ages now. Must remember to play it :)

Heh...

Try doing the F1 championship with the polophony :p
 
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bodhi

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Originally posted by Custy
aye, gt3 rallys are shit, i managed to win every race and not lose once without doing any work on my subaru impreza

Even the worst part of GT3 (the rallying) is still more fun than all of Project GothAids Racing combined.
 
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Munkey-

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i quite like WRC. would've been nice to include a training thingy.


decent game. good cars, effects and choice of drivers.

nice to see wales again :p
 
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lovedaddy

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Gotham is wonderful to play.
Tho the environment map and the specular is better on GT3
 
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stu

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If you think GT3 is too easy, try turning off all the player aids (eg ASM and TCS), and put Simulation tyres on your car.
 
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Hashmonster

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first thing i did before even starting racing in the game was turning the driver aids off - hate it with em on, no fun :)
 
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Custy

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Hmm, the powerful rear wheel drive cars are almost impossible to control without traction control.
 

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